Re: [asa] The first uninteresting number

Hi Burgy

I don't know what makes a number uninteresting, but 1103 definitely doesn't
qualify. 1103 is a prime number. (See http://www.prime-numbers.org/)

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM, j burg <hossradbourne@gmail.com> wrote:

> A friend of mine, Mike Anglin, sent me this -- it reminded me of
> Vernon's claims:
>
> "The number 1103 is the first of a sequence of "uninteresting" numbers.
> These
> are numbers which have NO unusual properties or characteristics whatsoever.
>
> Being the first of this sequence is, however, an interesting property
> of 1103, so that it can no longer qualify. And so that the next
> number in the series, 26390, becomes the first uninteresting number.
> And so forth :-)"
>
> I lost touch with Mike -- does anyone here have any insight into what
> might make a number "uninteresting?"
> --
> Burgy
>
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